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* The third battle of Cape Finisterre ( 1805 ) on 22 July 1805 was an inconclusive encounter between a British fleet commanded by Calder and a French fleet commanded by Silvestre de Villeneuve
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With eyes focused on the third congressional district, the historic Delta district, and Congressman Frank E. Smith as the one most likely to go, the redistricting battle will put to a test the longstanding power which lawmakers from the Delta have held in the Legislature.
But on Cemetery Hill, the I Corps could muster only a third of its men as effective for duty and the corps was essentially destroyed as a combat force for the rest of the battle ; it would be decommissioned in March 1864, its surviving units combined into other corps.
This is likely due to three scenes in the Chronicles: first, when Eric paralyzes Corwin with an attack across the Trump and refuses to desist because one or the other would be dominated ; second, when Corwin faces the demon Strygalldwir, it is able to wrestle mentally with him when their gazes meet ; and third, when Fiona is able to keep Brand immobile in the final battle at the Courts of Chaos.
* 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Verdun – German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
One year later, during the third battle of Doiran, the United Kingdom, supported by Greece, once again suffered a humiliating defeat, losing 3, 155 men against just about 500 for the Bulgarian side.
It has also been argued that this is the third part of the poem since it describes the settings during the time lapse before the final battle between Beowulf and the Dragon.
The Marquis de Feuquières writing after the battle described the scene – " They advanced in four lines … As they approached they advanced their second and fourth lines into the intervals of their first and third lines ; so that when they made their advance upon us, they formed only one front, without any intermediate spaces.
The third British ship into action was HMS Orion under Captain Sir James Saumarez, which rounded the engagement at the head of the battle line and passed between the French main line and the frigates that lay closer inshore.
On the third day of battle, July 3, fighting resumed on Culp's Hill, and cavalry battles raged to the east and south, but the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12, 500 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge, known as Pickett's Charge.
The system arose after a prolonged political battle between religious and secular political parties, and is considered a political third rail even today.
Two players from opposing teams can battle for the ball, however if another player interferes it is considered third party and the ball automatically goes to the team who only had one player involved in the third party.
In this conflict, which included many of the most lethal battle operations in human history, Soviet military and civilian deaths were 10. 6 million and 15. 9 million respectively, accounting for about a third of all World War II casualties.
It contains several pieces of concept art from the series's conception to the release of Skyward Sword in 2011, multiple essays about the production of the games, and for the first time ever in Zelda history, the series's timeline was included in the book, confirming fan theories about a split in the timeline, as well as a third split, asking what would happen if Link was defeated in the final battle with Ganon in Ocarina of Time.
A third battle was fought against a subsequent wave of invaders, the Milesians, from the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula ( present day Galicia and Northern Portugal ), descendants of Míl Espáine ( who are thought to represent the Goidelic Celts ).
During the third day of the 13-day Cold Harbor battle, Grant led a costly fatal assault on Lee's trenches, and as news spread in the North, heavy criticism fell on Grant, who was called " the Butcher ", having lost 52, 788 casualties in 30 days since crossing the Rapidan.
* July 9 – Russo-Swedish War – Second Battle of Svensksund: In a massive Baltic Sea battle of 300 ships, the Swedish navy captures one third of the Russian fleet: 304 Swedes are killed, 3, 500 Russians killed and 6, 000 captured, 51 Russian ships are sunk and 22 are taken.
* King Daeso of Dongbuyeo is killed in battle against the armies of Goguryeo, led by its third ruler, King Daemusin.
Muhammad marched out to meet the force but before reaching the battle, about one third of the troops under Abd-Allah ibn Ubayy withdrew.
The Polish logician and philosopher, Jan Łukasiewicz, began to create systems of many-valued logic in 1920, using a third value, " possible ", to deal with Aristotle's paradox of the sea battle.
In the second stage El was absorbed into the god Yahweh, the national god of the kingdom of Judah, who took over El's role as creator-god ; in the third stage the theme of creation by battle was replaced with creation by divine command ( paralleling an earlier development in Egyptian theology some 300 years previously ) and the process of creation itself was " de-mythologised ".
The first battle took place between Ra and Apophis, the second between Heru-Bekhutet and Set, and the third between Horus, the son of Osiris, and Set.
Behind them, the third battle consisted of about 700 men from the county of Flanders under Gilles II de Trasignies, Constable of France, and Robert III of Flanders.
The third battle, numbering 1, 400, were the feudatories of the Kingdom, under Manfred's personal command.
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On July 4, 2005, Cape Verde became the third country to sign a compact with the U. S. Government-funded Millennium Challenge Corporation ( MCC ); the five-year assistance package is worth over $ 110 million in addressing rural economic expansion, infrastructure development, and development of the credit sector.
In 1936 the federal government established the Cape Breton Highlands National Park covering across the northern third of the Highlands.
* 1833 – Admiral Charles Napier defeats the navy of the Portuguese usurper Dom Miguel at the third Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
The third island propagation project introduced a population on St. Vincent Island, Florida offshore between Cape San Blas and Apalachicola, Florida in 1990, and in 1997 the fourth island propagation program introduced a population to Cape St. George Island, Florida south of Apalachicola, Florida.
* April 14 – A Delta rocket's third stage motor ignites prematurely in an assembly room at Cape Canaveral, killing 3.
* November 4 – A Dutch fleet, with Michiel de Ruyter as third in command, beats back a Spanish-Dunkirker fleet in an action at Cape St Vincent.
" Cape Feare " is generally regarded as one of the best episodes of The Simpsons and placed third on Entertainment Weeklys 2003 list of the show's top 25 episodes.
CONTOUR launched on a Delta 7425 ( a Delta II Lite launch vehicle with four strap-on solid-rocket boosters and a Star 27 third stage ) on July 3, 2002 at 6: 47: 41 UT ( 2: 47: 41 a. m. EDT ) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
The southern third of Key Biscayne, which included Cape Florida, was owned by James Deering and, after his death, by his brother Charles, for 35 years.
As of the 2000 U. S. Census, the city had a population of 16, 651 ; a 2008 estimate showed the population to be 17, 096, an increase of 2. 67 %, and is the third largest city in Missouri's 8th Congressional District after Cape Girardeau and Sikeston.
A Dutch fleet, with De Ruyter as third in command, beat back a Spanish-Dunkirker fleet in an action off Cape St Vincent on 4 November 1641.
The party was pushed into a distant third place behind the Democratic Party in its former stronghold in the Western Cape which put big questions on the future of the party.
A circular written in 1848 by the third Earl Grey, then colonial secretary, was sent to the governor of the Cape, as well as other colonial governors, asking them to ascertain the feelings of the colonists regarding the reception of a certain class of convicts.
* HMS Diadem was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line in the Royal Navy launched in 1782 at Chatham and participated in the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1787
In the 1950s Kingston was transformed from a small rural town into an extension of the Boston metropolitan area when Massachusetts Route 3 was constructed, connecting Boston to Cape Cod, with two exits in Kingston ( and a third exit immediately over the town line in Duxbury ).
Founded in 1896 as the South African School of Mines in Kimberley, it is the third oldest South African university in continuous operation, after the University of Cape Town ( founded in 1829 ), and Stellenbosch University ( founded in 1866 ).
On 6 February 2011, he was elected to his third term by most Cape Verdean voters, thus reinforcing his party's influence in the Cape Verdean parliament.
The Cape Cod Music Circus ( now the Melody Tent ) in Hyannis, Massachusetts opened in 1950, the third tent theatre to open, and The South Shore Music Circus in Cohasset, Massachusetts followed in 1951.
Its the third oldest European settlement in the Republic of South Africa ( after Cape Town and Stellenbosch ) and the largest town in the Cape Winelands.
The rivers of the third system are the Chowan, the Roanoke, the Tar, the Neuse and the Cape Fear, which were important travel routes prior to the development of the railroads, being navigable some for fifty and others to near one hundred miles for boats of light draught.
The Federal government's stance at the time was that the Great Lakes were the " third coast " and had to be preserved much like Cape Hatteras or Big Sur, which are National Seashores.
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